névé

American  

[nay-vay] / neɪˈveɪ /

noun

1. granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.

2. a field of such snow.

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névé British  

/ ˈnɛveɪ /

noun

1. Also called: firn. a mass of porous ice, formed from snow, that has not yet become frozen into glacier ice

2. a snowfield at the head of a glacier that becomes transformed into ice

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névé Scientific  

/ nā-vā′ /

1. The upper part of a glacier, consisting of hardened snow.

2. The granular snow typically found in such a field.

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Etymology

Origin of névé

1850–55; < Franco-Provençal < Vulgar Latin *nivātum, noun use of neuter of Latin nivātus snow-cooled, equivalent to niv- (stem of nix snow ) + -ātus -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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névé

All of these crevasses were covered with a thin crust of hardened névé which had not a sign of a crack in it.

From The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley

This supposition is easily confirmed: by observing the field we find that the sheet is everywhere drawing away from the cliffs, leaving a deep fissure between the névé and the precipices.

From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

Let us look first at the lateral ones; and to understand them we must examine the conformation of the glacier below the névé, where it assumes the character of pure compact ice.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

The Glacier Tongue comes close around a high bluff headland of kenyte; it is much cracked and curiously composed of a broad wedge of white névé over blue ice.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott

The menacing séracs leaned from the cliffs, glittering icily, and threw black shadows upon the névé beneath, but suffered us to pass unmolested.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

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